id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
expositions-82	none	The Useful Uselessness of the Humanities	2008	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3078	150	61	Aristotle’s conception of theoretical knowledge is significantly differ- ent from what we take to be the humanities, or even from what we take to be theoretical knowledge, for it embraces the natural sciences, math- ematics, and theology, as well as philosophy.4 Nonetheless, it shares the central feature that Fish attributes to the humanities: it is auto-telic; it is its own good and so need not make any reference to an external result in order to justify itself. But without the humanities, without the pursuit of what Aristotle called theoretical knowledge, the city would be composed only of citizens who are constantly in pursuit of goods whose attainment leads only to further pursuit of more of the same.	cache/expositions-82.pdf	txt/expositions-82.txt